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Ok, a little vague, what with this being one of those silhouetted teaser pics, but I can deal with that unlike some.

So this will be some extra 'city-forming' add-ons which will attach to the Energon/Year of the Snake Omega Supreme in both modes.I would assume that will put a cropper to any combined efforts with Optimus Prime to form Optimus Supreme?

Motto:""I'd be the President of the procrastinator's club if I ever got around to submitting my application.""

Weapon: Null-Ray Rifle

Very interesting. The blaster arm doesn't bother me too much (though I'd like to see an upgrade, maybe a cone over the bow of the ship). I'm a fan of Robotech/Macross, so the arm reminds me of the Daedalus arm of SDF-1. And the starship portion looks like a Yamato style, which I think is cool.

I'll keep an eye on this one. I used a Christmas Amazon gift card on YoS, so we'll see...

I once read that self deprecating humor is a sign of intelligence.So, I started making fun of myself like crazy...

Favorite Handle from the MUD at the End of the Line:Agamemnon - Bareback rider of flying dragons and not often constipated either.

mooncake623 wrote:looks cool... but this set doesn't fix the biggest problem in YOTS OS. It needs a Blaster Arm! not that weird looking one it has now..

YES!

I have been a big supporter of genesis and i will be getting it either way but now i may need to get yots os and this set as well because i am a BIG sucker for city/base bots. But only if maketoys or someone makes a blaster arm and it would be nice if the tracks/wings weren't so honkin huge, maybe fold in half for bot mode?

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."- Ronald Reagan

Everyone keeps mentioning the blaster arm. I just don't see that side of the toy as a spaceship, it just looks like an ocean going battleship to me and subsequently (for me) doesn't fit as a rocket.

If I was to spring for this it would have to match the Energon version (not buying a big crappy toy a second time at a mark-up), the 'wings' would have to look better and the kit would have to include more than just a blaster arm. It'd need components to rework that entire side of the toy.

Guess this will be an auto pass for me. More money for other 3P offerings

william-james88 wrote:So that would also be the case for Predaking, who is also six members.

Motto:""I'd be the President of the procrastinator's club if I ever got around to submitting my application.""

Weapon: Null-Ray Rifle

Arctorro wrote:Everyone keeps mentioning the blaster arm. I just don't see that side of the toy as a spaceship, it just looks like an ocean going battleship to me and subsequently (for me) doesn't fit as a rocket.

Space Battleship Yamato? SDF-1?

I once read that self deprecating humor is a sign of intelligence.So, I started making fun of myself like crazy...

Favorite Handle from the MUD at the End of the Line:Agamemnon - Bareback rider of flying dragons and not often constipated either.

Arctorro wrote:Everyone keeps mentioning the blaster arm. I just don't see that side of the toy as a spaceship, it just looks like an ocean going battleship to me and subsequently (for me) doesn't fit as a rocket.

Space Battleship Yamato? SDF-1?

SDF-1 looks alright, but SBY looks just as bad as OS's battleship to me. For something space related that is.

william-james88 wrote:So that would also be the case for Predaking, who is also six members.

Motto:""I'd be the President of the procrastinator's club if I ever got around to submitting my application.""

Weapon: Null-Ray Rifle

Arctorro wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

Arctorro wrote:Everyone keeps mentioning the blaster arm. I just don't see that side of the toy as a spaceship, it just looks like an ocean going battleship to me and subsequently (for me) doesn't fit as a rocket.

Space Battleship Yamato? SDF-1?

SDF-1 looks alright, but SBY looks just as bad as OS's battleship to me. For something space related that is.

It's probably that I was young and impressionable when all that Japanese Animation stuff came out that the Yamato aesthetic is pleasing. I see what you are saying. I think the reason is that battleships like the Bismarck and Missouri were just so cool...

I once read that self deprecating humor is a sign of intelligence.So, I started making fun of myself like crazy...

Favorite Handle from the MUD at the End of the Line:Agamemnon - Bareback rider of flying dragons and not often constipated either.

Arctorro wrote:Everyone keeps mentioning the blaster arm. I just don't see that side of the toy as a spaceship, it just looks like an ocean going battleship to me and subsequently (for me) doesn't fit as a rocket.

Space Battleship Yamato? SDF-1?

SDF-1 looks alright, but SBY looks just as bad as OS's battleship to me. For something space related that is.

It's probably that I was young and impressionable when all that Japanese Animation stuff came out that the Yamato aesthetic is pleasing. I see what you are saying. I think the reason is that battleships like the Bismarck and Missouri were just so cool...

No doubt about it, they are awesome!

william-james88 wrote:So that would also be the case for Predaking, who is also six members.

Simply not digging this. I feel like (if they are indeed trying to make YoTS Omega more G1) they've done it via what was in my opinion the worst feature of the figure: the base mode. I would have loved a blaster hand (not a strictly G1 accurate one, just one that looks like it could seriously annihilate something) something to make the front of the construction vehicle more tank-like, maybe even a new joint to add shoulder elevation to the claw arm.

I first saw the image of this upgrade set on a random Google image search, and I thought someone had PhotoShopped two pieces of Scalextric track to the figure.

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."- Ronald Reagan

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."- Ronald Reagan

mooncake623 wrote:looks cool... but this set doesn't fix the biggest problem in YOTS OS. It needs a Blaster Arm! not that weird looking one it has now..

YES!

I have been a big supporter of genesis and i will be getting it either way but now i may need to get yots os and this set as well because i am a BIG sucker for city/base bots. But only if maketoys or someone makes a blaster arm and it would be nice if the tracks/wings weren't so honkin huge, maybe fold in half for bot mode?

Same here. I have been hesitant to pull the trigger on the YoS OS but this Maketoys upgrade kit might push me over the edge. Only trouble is that Maketoys tends to be pretty expensive and the upgrade kit will probably be more than the YoS itself if their other kits are any indication of price.